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Growth inhibitory and chemo-sensitization effects of naringenin, a natural flavanone purified from Thymus vulgaris, on human breast and colorectal cancer

Overview of attention for article published in Cancer Cell International, April 2015
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Title
Growth inhibitory and chemo-sensitization effects of naringenin, a natural flavanone purified from Thymus vulgaris, on human breast and colorectal cancer
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Cancer Cell International, April 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12935-015-0194-0
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Mohamed Salah I Abaza, Khaled Y Orabi, Ebtehal Al-Quattan, Raja’a J Al-Attiyah

Abstract

Natural products with diverse bioactivities are becoming an important source of novel agents with medicinal potential. Cancer is a devastating disease that causes the death of millions of people each year. Thus, intense research has been conducted on several natural products to develop novel anticancer drugs. Chromatographic and spectral techniques were used for the isolation and identification of naringenin (Nar). MTT, flow cytometry, western blotting, Real Time PCR were used to test anticancer and chemosensitizing effects of Nar, cell cycle, apoptosis, and expression of cell cycle, apoptosis, pro-survival and anti-survival-related genes. In the present study, Thymus vulgaris ethanol extract was purified repeatedly to produce several compounds including the known flavanone, Nar which was identified using different spectral techniques. Nar was shown to inhibit both human colorectal and breast cancer cell growth in a dose- and time-dependent manner through cell cycle arrest at S- and G2/M-phases accompanied by an increase in apoptotic cell death. Additionally, Nar altered the expression of apoptosis and cell-cycle regulatory genes by down-regulating Cdk4, Cdk6, Cdk7, Bcl2, x-IAP and c-IAP-2 and up-regulating p18, p19, p21, caspases 3, 7, 8 and 9, Bak, AIF and Bax in both colorectal and breast cancer cells. Conversely, it diminished the expression levels of the cell survival factors PI3K, pAkt, pIκBα and NFκBp65. Moreover, Nar enhanced the sensitivity of colorectal and breast cancer cells to DNA-acting drugs. These findings provide evidence that Nar's pro-apoptotic and chemo-sensitizing effects are mediated by perturbation of cell cycle, upregulation of pro-apoptotic genes and down-regulation of anti-apoptotic genes and inhibition of pro-survival signaling pathways. In conclusion, Nar might be a promising candidate for chemoprevention and/or chemotherapy of human cancers. However, further studies exploring this therapeutic strategy are necessary.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
India 1 <1%
Unknown 111 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 18%
Student > Master 17 15%
Student > Bachelor 15 13%
Researcher 7 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Other 17 15%
Unknown 30 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 20 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 19 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 16 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 4%
Other 12 11%
Unknown 36 32%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 August 2015.
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#3,622,287
of 22,800,560 outputs
Outputs from Cancer Cell International
#322
of 1,800 outputs
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#47,120
of 265,147 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cancer Cell International
#2
of 19 outputs
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